Comments on: Wednesday checkin, Pac-12 all-century team

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Sat, 30 Jan 2016 04:10:06 +0000

5. Black’s is still there as far as I know.

6. It was a very limited team. Lot of good players left off.

10. GCU is looking to move out of the MIVA as well as go not-for-profit status.
The issue is having the minimum number of required sports
So at the moment: UCSD, Cal Baptist, Concordia, Grand Canyon.

new thread up for Friday

http://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/?p=35531

By: WaWa

WaWa — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 23:47:57 +0000

Do you think any of those possible future conferences of Big West/MPSF would want to pick up Grand Canyon? I know the MPSF as a whole was not interested due to GCU’s for-profit status. Concordia-Irvine? Aren’t they looking to reach DI eventually? Any other possible schools?

By: 'ohanaInBellingham

'ohanaInBellingham — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 18:58:42 +0000

+1, BIVF #7.

By: warriorfan

warriorfan — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 08:53:28 +0000

If the big west does sponsor mens volleyball it will be tough, Long Beach, Irvine and Hawaii right now are recruiting very well and will be top 5 teams for years to come.

By: Big Island VB fan

Big Island VB fan — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 07:13:00 +0000

For me the major advantage of men’s volleyball moving into the Big West Conference is that live TV shows will have to be shown to the public at large whether or not they are subscribed to cable, just like the women’s volleyball matches. I can hardly wait.

By: haleiwacrossfitter

haleiwacrossfitter — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 07:09:09 +0000

I definitely feel there should be more local kids on the all century team. Often times Hawaii’s best prep player was the top player.

Lawson
Wong brothers
Trevor Schirmann
Fred Robins
Riley McKibbin
Micah Christensen
Kawika Shoji

I could go on….too many left off.

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 03:41:24 +0000

Very interesting information Cindy. Thanks for the visual Aloha73g. There sure are plenty of good players to go around. Ps I love the location of UCSD and its nude beach. At least it had one 35 yrs. ago.

By: Aloha73g

Aloha73g — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 02:42:28 +0000

I very much enjoyed your article about conference evolution for Men’s Volleyball Cindy. The MPSF schedule reduction next year will be great in terms of UH being able to schedule more home games against quality opponents. Having 2 tournaments would be awesome.

Also, the Big West sponsoring Men’s Volleyball would leave the conferences looking like this (current AVCA rank in parentheses):
Big West:
LBSU (2)
Hawai’i (5)
UC Irvine (9)
UC Santa Barbara (11)
CSUN (12)
UCSD

MPSF:
UCLA (1)
BYU (3)
Stanford (6)
Pepperdine (8)
USC
Cal Baptist

There would be 2 powerhouse West Coast MVB conferences and (presumably) with only 10 conference matches UH and the other Big West (and MPSF) teams could schedule out-of conference matches against the MPSF teams in addition to EIVA, MIVA & CC.

A win-win for everyone! Plus the NCAA would probably expand the tournament to 8 teams.

-Aloha!

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 06:20:26 +0000

No. 1 UCLA def. No. 2 Long Beach State
23-25, 22-25, 25-19 25-22, 15-13
Ma’a with 13 kills, 30 assists, 1 ace, 8 digs.

By: auntyz

auntyz — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 05:46:27 +0000

UCLA in 5
23-25, 22-25, 25-19, 25-22, 15-13
at one pointt in set 5 UCLA was hitting .000
I though Long Beach was going to pull it out
Going to be exciting VB when they come here.